The belief that Leonidas, the King of Sparta, commanded 300 of his fiercest and bravest soldiers into battle against what were supposedly millions of Persian invaders led by Xerxes I and nearly ...

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now ...

This singular episode of self-sacrificing bravery has long obscured our understanding of the real Sparta. A scene from Thermopylae by the Italian novelist, painter and poet Dino Buzzati. The 300 ...

In one of the greatest, yet now forgotten, small-unit engagements in American history, several hundred Marylanders made an epic stand resembling that of the 300 ancient Spartans at Thermopylae.

In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet, that was anchored off the nearby ...

She entered the game with 292 for her career and she now becomes the only active player in New Jersey to join the 300-goal club. Moira Sweeney added six goals for Sparta (1-0), which led 11-5 at ...

He played Stelios, one of the 300 Spartan warriors who fight alongside King Leonidas (Butler) as they defend their home from King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and the invading Persian armies.